Post by victorgrant on Mar 23, 2018 3:55:37 GMT -6
Hello,
Be careful, big data is micro -targetting you….Yes, big brother has a new avatar and it’s far more intrusive and dangerous. Its not just watching you – it is actively manipulating you in ways you never suspected. That’s why recent revelations of ‘data harvesting’ from 50 million Facebook users to influence the results of the US elections are ringing alarm bells in government offices and homes around the world. It’s a big wake up call for India’s 2019 elections.
While governments are slowly beginning to realise that their electorates have been significantly manipulated by data predators like Cambridge Analytica whose global footprint is emerging as I write, friends on Facebook know that this is just the tip of the iceberg. How often have you checked a holiday destination only to find Air B&B and gmail offering you hotels in that very destination a few hours later? Or even your bank website making some insane offers on an insurance or a face cream of the type you bought last week from Amazon? Some friends are spooked that Facebook actually intuits something even as they think of it…data crunchers are not just in your face it seems, they’re in your head. Mind control is the name of the game and its not sci-fi anymore.
In India, the breach in Facebook’s data protection affects 200 million users and has coincided with a lawsuit against the government on the all-encompassing use of Aadhaar numbers for every conceivable activity. How absurd this is was revealed in the case of a baby who was required to produce an aadhaar card to get a birth certificate!
Maybe that was a joke but I wouldn’t put it past some blinkered brainless bureaucrat to be so dogged. More seriously, the exploiting of information on our age, gender, address,profession, travel, family members,food preferences, hobbies, shopping habits et al has reached dangerously intrusive proportions reducing our autonomy as individuals.
Both governments and big IT monoliths like Facebook, Google and Twitter have breached our fundamental right to be in total control of our own selves. Your right as a human being to not share the minutaie of your life with millions of strangers and the government has been lost. Witness the absurd case of journalist Rachna Khair who received an FIR for exposing the ease with which personal Aadhaar information can be siphoned off from ‘secure’ government data protections systems. Ironically, instead of cracking down on its lax security systems, the government decided to shoot the messenger.
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Be careful, big data is micro -targetting you….Yes, big brother has a new avatar and it’s far more intrusive and dangerous. Its not just watching you – it is actively manipulating you in ways you never suspected. That’s why recent revelations of ‘data harvesting’ from 50 million Facebook users to influence the results of the US elections are ringing alarm bells in government offices and homes around the world. It’s a big wake up call for India’s 2019 elections.
While governments are slowly beginning to realise that their electorates have been significantly manipulated by data predators like Cambridge Analytica whose global footprint is emerging as I write, friends on Facebook know that this is just the tip of the iceberg. How often have you checked a holiday destination only to find Air B&B and gmail offering you hotels in that very destination a few hours later? Or even your bank website making some insane offers on an insurance or a face cream of the type you bought last week from Amazon? Some friends are spooked that Facebook actually intuits something even as they think of it…data crunchers are not just in your face it seems, they’re in your head. Mind control is the name of the game and its not sci-fi anymore.
In India, the breach in Facebook’s data protection affects 200 million users and has coincided with a lawsuit against the government on the all-encompassing use of Aadhaar numbers for every conceivable activity. How absurd this is was revealed in the case of a baby who was required to produce an aadhaar card to get a birth certificate!
Maybe that was a joke but I wouldn’t put it past some blinkered brainless bureaucrat to be so dogged. More seriously, the exploiting of information on our age, gender, address,profession, travel, family members,food preferences, hobbies, shopping habits et al has reached dangerously intrusive proportions reducing our autonomy as individuals.
Both governments and big IT monoliths like Facebook, Google and Twitter have breached our fundamental right to be in total control of our own selves. Your right as a human being to not share the minutaie of your life with millions of strangers and the government has been lost. Witness the absurd case of journalist Rachna Khair who received an FIR for exposing the ease with which personal Aadhaar information can be siphoned off from ‘secure’ government data protections systems. Ironically, instead of cracking down on its lax security systems, the government decided to shoot the messenger.
For More You Can Check:-
Web Explainer Video